Its time to start talking about electronics. The kit comes with a 4″ strip of double sided tape. It is pretty sturdy stuff, so I decided to give it a try on the receiver

Is this the receivers final home? We weren’t sure at this point.

The manual instructs you to mount the Electronic Speed Control, or ESC, to the back of the receiver box. The Caslte Creations Mamba Max Pro were are using was a bit big for this location. In this position, the driveshaft would hit the ESC fan when the suspension was compressed

With the ESC sitting vertical like this, the battery tray is interfered with. We wouldn’t have been able to use the metal plate you will see in a few steps

I even tried fitting the ESC into the receiver box. But it was still too tall for the battery tray to work in its stock configuration

Here is how we mounted the ESC. By taking the fan off the ESC, we were able to fit it on the back of the receiver box, in the stock configuration

With a permanent home found for all of the electronics, we plugged in all of the leads to the receiver

And installed the cover on the receiver box

Next we installed the metal plate which is where the battery is mounted

Velcro straps provide a secure hold down for the battery, and provide flexibility with which battery type you select

Next we soldered the wires from the ESC to the motor

At this point we were able to install the pinion gear, and set the mesh